Winslet returns to the future in 'Divergent'

5:13 AM,
Mar. 27, 2013

Kate Winslet is set to star in 'Divergent.'
Alastair Grant, AP

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Susan Wloszczyna, USA TODAY

Young adult? Why not? That's apparently what Kate Winslet said when the Oscar winner for 2008's The Reader was offered the villainous role of Jeanine Matthews in the sci-fi adventure Divergent, based on the best-selling young-adult novel by Veronica Roth.

Directed by Neil Burger (Limitless, The Illusionist), Divergent is based on the first of a series of books that have been compared to The Hunger Games and imagines a ...